(Medical Xpress)—As occurred in the painstaking deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, adherence to outmoded ideas is a lasting impediment to our understanding of how odorants are decoded by the ...

A controversial theory that explains the molecular mechanism which gives our sense of smell razor-sharp precision has been given a boost thanks to a study by a team of UCL researchers at the London ...

A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness published in Physics of Life Reviews claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside brain ...

Two researchers at Rockefeller University have put a controversial theory of smell to the sniff test and have found no evidence to support it. Two researchers at Rockefeller University have put a ...

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (Vintage, 448 pp., £7.99) Buy it at BOL The great ambition of scientists is to grasp the far ...

The BBC's Jason Palmer visits a perfume store to find out more A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a quantum physics effect has received a boost, following experiments with human ...

INTRICATE vibration phenomena have at all times attracted the attention of the physical investigator, and vibration theory is a wide field well and fruitfully cultivated by the mathematician. The ...

A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a quantum physics effect has received a boost, following experiments with human subjects. It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends ...